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Forget the millennium. New Year's '99 was much moremomentous for Carrie Gross and Debbie Paszyc. After all, January 1,1999, was the day they became the proud owners of three Augusta,Maine-area Dairy Queens.
Gross, 24, and Paszyc, 26, have a long history with Dairy Queen;both worked part time for one Augusta store when they were 14,continued working there through college and eventually becameassistant managers. After earning a business degree from theUniversity of Maine, Farmington, Gross left Dairy Queen to work foran insurance company; Paszyc, who majored in elementary educationat the University of Maine, Orono, became a junior high schoolteacher.
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